Posted by Kerry Rea
Allan Rubin recently authored a blog post about the state of the events industry. After a glowing recommendation of GovEvents (thank you, we're blushing!), he did raise an issue with one of our recent email campaigns that led with the subject line, "Latest Conference Cancellations & Postponements on GovEvents." From his post:
"It just struck me as significant that a company which promotes government events led its outreach effort with a message about...the cancellation of government events!"
We wanted to address this point. We see our role as twofold -- first, to provide easy access to all government and military-related events by being the aggregator of these events and second, to communicate to our 20,000+ members and followers the latest updates and changes related to events. Unfortunately, the news isn't always good news. While we like to stay positive, the recent cancellations and postponements were high profile conferences and to not inform our user base would be a disservice.
On the 'positive news' side of things, we do see that the government events industry is very much alive and well...in the last two weeks, 185 new conferences, events, webcasts have been posted to GovEvents--an all-time high in a 2-week period.
Thanks again to Allan and for his kind words and use of the site. We always welcome feedback on the site as well as our communication strategies! Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments below!
